Posted on 03/18/2022 9:16:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Interesting, especially since our government is now essentially a crime syndicate as well, and the military is being suborned as a threat to the oligarchy.
The Soviet army last fought in Afghanistan and got its collective butts kicked. The last war they really fought was WWII. They raped their way across Hitler’s Germany, both tearing the countryside down, looting and burning and physically raping any and all females, ages born to 90. The Nazi’s looted and burned Russia first and it was payback, but the raping of young girls under age 12 and even very old women in their 80-90s BS. They fell apart when the old Soviet Union fell apart. Everybody went gangster. The military was very good for a couple of decades and was poorly funded and staffed. Not surprised they have not fared well and have high casualties. If we had had this type of results when we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, our country would have hanged our generals and DOD leadership for allowing such to happen. Whatever the Commies casualty list numbers are, dead and wounded, they are way too high for a supposedly top military in the world. Maybe Puke-tin is holding back his best troops for the Gog and Magog invasion of Israel to get their gas and oil shortly.
woops. meant to read:
The military was NOT very good for a couple of decades. My bad.
Stalin was ruthless.
We had Gen staff who knew our greatest enemy wasn’t actually Hitler, or that Stalin was equally depraved as Hitler.
We would not have played his game.
In RUS, as you know, only the East side of Moscow had a pathway open.
Russia, it’s people, it’s war machine were truly devastated.
In the Great War Memorial in Moscow, they are reluctant to even acknowledge there was a Western front and allies.
However, there is strong dialogue on having nearly lost the “Great Patriotic War”, and in detail.
As well, (and maybe you have), you can see the large memorials of tank stops, almost right down to метро Речной вокзал
Metro Station Rechnoy Vokzal at the top of the green line.
This part seems strange to me, but Roosevelt went so far as sharing the Federal Reserve US 1 Dollar plates so to pay workers building tanks and equipment, and to pay his officers, as he was facing the threat of mass desertion, and contrary to some Western historians, it had happened in multiple cities from East of Moscow, the Urals, and into Siberia.
Many people absolutely hated Stalin.
They really truly were not fighting for Stalin, but rather for their lives.
The real Stalin worship didn’t get going until the late 1950’s, and was largely involved the younger marxist groomed generation post Great War.
“Everything Kamil Galeev writes is extremely interesting. He seems to know a lot and maybe his specialization of history between 1400-1800 makes this his moment because Russia looks to be stuck in that era.”
Agree!!! I have seen his twitter before but now I must pay more attention to him. I will put him as a twitter favorite (following) so he is in my feed. Twitter is still useful.... I hardly ever comment there.
Kamil works in DC
In this case, you are not only saying certain US Generals were wrong, based on our interaction in 1993 you are saying the Russian and Warsaw derived Generals are wrong. And they knew the hearts and score on the ground at the time.
Not saying it would have been easy, but in my opinion, fight the Germans and Italy hard, defeat Japan, allow and utilize the brutal Eastern socialists smashing each other, but we had no business doing business in favor of Stalin’s regime.
As well, who could carte blanche give a sociopathic marxist genocidal maniac, non-self determiniative control of the nearly all of Eastern Europe? And worse, stipulated on helping us defeat Japan, all the while Stalin insisting on allied troops leaving China (within the context of Lenin having picked Mao (1921/22), to lead a communist revolution across China and East Asia?
Additionally, at the end, we had “The Bomb”, stalin did not.
We had roughly 16,000,000 military personnel by the war’s end: approximately 11,200,000 in the Army, 4,200,000 in the Navy, and 660,000 in the Marine Corps.
Far cry from 1939. On 1 July 1939, the strength of the active Army was approximately 174,000—three quarters of whom were scattered throughout the continental United States; the rest stationed overseas.
What an explosion and literal war machine.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/06/26/us-involvement-in-wwii-how-the-military-grew/
Russian Academy of Sciences placed the number of actual Russian dead (not casualties), at roughly 26.6 million. 12 million fled to Siberia (often fleeing both Hitler and Stalin).
You are right though, (as with Germany, and largely due to teaching secular humanism, and God didn’t exist), those Russian soldiers were totally out of control, and civilians were horrifically brutalized...
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